“How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

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          Why are you asking about Timecube?

          Does it have to do with this Lemmy posting? The subject-matter of this Lemmy post?

          “How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

           

          @TachyonTele@lemm.ee is active on the Lemmy Community “Information Wars”. Has a target fixation on !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee content.

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              You are insane.

              I’m not the one who thinks Alex Jones Info Wars is hilarious comedy.

              Take your meds and please don’t hurt anyone.

              Sadly, there is no medication for living in the United States of America in May 2025. There is no treatment plan for “Mass Psychosis” of an entire population who dehumanizes people via social machines like Twitter, Reddit, Lemmy, White House systems, Truth Social, etc.

              “MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL”

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

               

              … your “Timecube” and Alex Jones Info Wars content. You go around promoting Alex Jones and Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray nonsense.

               

              Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

              This Lemmy posting is based on a work of non-fiction, it is not Alex Jones and Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray.

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                Hey moron. That article is about the onion buying info wars.

                Stop trying to argue with people and actually read things. You might learn something instead of looking like a lunatic.

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                  That article is about the onion buying info wars.

                  Yes, I clearly can read. Your Lemmy behaviors on Lemmy media platform are what is being called out.

                  Hey moron.

                  Out-group moron social machine behavior, conditioned reactionary response. You attack Americans and immigrants you don’t understand or comprehend, just like Elon Musk and Donald Trump do - use Elon Musk Twitter systems and Donald Trump Truth Social systems to attack and call people “low IQ” and other insults when they can’t understand information warfare from Russia.

                   

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                  “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

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                    So you claim you can read, yet everything you’re “calling out” is the complete opposite of what’s going on.

                    That’s an interesting way to talk to people.

                    I’m also not reading any of whatever it is your copy/pasting. You’re a lunatic.